Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.
A great tailor is like a great personal trainer – they tailor that suit to your natural physique.
Show me a great actor and I’ll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you’ve seen the devil.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
Thrift is of great revenue.
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
I am the herald of the Great King.
Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
I’ve been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
Great loves too must be endured.
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
There were some great clinicians in the 20th century – great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius – there’s a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
The target for every great champion is to play for the team.
Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It’s like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
For me, it’s a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me ‘You’re not going to be a DJ.’
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
You don’t build a great castle just all at once.
The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
No man was ever great by imitation.
Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
People always tell you, ‘Be humble. Be humble.’ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!
People know if you care about them. How do you show people that you care? By caring for them. By putting their needs first. By sacrificing for them. By serving them. Do that, and you’ll build a great team.
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894… A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.
God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
I have Chinese blood in me… I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass – and you get up each time – you will reach your destination.
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
I’m an incurable optimist, and I’m a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.
You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
